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Provisions

XII.6 of 1939 • Commissioned officers; removal.

APPROVED

The Text

The commissioned officers shall be commissioned by the governor as commander-in-chief. No commissioned officer shall be removed from office during the term for which he shall have been appointed, unless by the senate on the recommendation of the governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the sentence of a court-martial, or upon the findings of an examining board organized pursuant to law, or for absence without leave for a period of six months or more.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1939

• In Article XII: Military

• Has 80 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1895-XI.6

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